Chancery: Commercial

Adil is extremely intelligent and backs that up with excellent advocacy. He is highly responsive, very easy to work with and engaging.

Adil's technical excellence is unparalleled, and he is plainly a future star of the Bar.

Adil is super brainy. He goes through the most complex matters very quickly and provides clean, clear analysis of the case. Always very friendly, he's approachable even when very busy.

Daniel is an excellent technician and exquisite draftsman.

Daniel is a genuine authority on all things minority shareholder disputes.

Like a ferret up a drainpipe, Daniel will go to all lengths to find a creative solution.

Daniel is accessible, very intelligent and fastidious in his approach. He is a really good strategist, who can break things down into digestible bits of information. He's also great with clients.

Daniel is an incredibly talented black-letter lawyer.

Elizabeth is good, strong and no-nonsense.

Elizabeth is an incredibly ferocious advocate.

John is excellent on his feet.

John is without peer among silks when it comes to advising on LLP and partnership law.

John is brilliant and highly commercial. He picks things up in an instant and doesn't sit on the fence.

John is technically excellent and able to step back and see the bigger picture.

John is very technical, always willing and someone who writes persuasive skeleton arguments. You feel like you have an advantage going into the courtroom with him.

Dakis has an encyclopedic knowledge of the law and works exceptionally well with offshore lawyers in London.

Dakis Hagen is just incredibly knowledgeable on the trusts side of things.

Dakis is a charming and effective advocate with unbelievable intellectual power, which he wears lightly. He is able to lead judges through a case like others really can’t.

Dan is a leading light at the Bar. His strength is that he has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the law and a memory that puts us all to shame.

Dan is brilliant on his feet and a decisive and authoritative leader.

Dan goes toe to toe with far more senior silks and excels. His advocacy is superb, and he is the kind of guy you want on your team.

Dan is calm and good at responding to questions from the bench. He is very good at thinking on his feet because of the way he prepares.

Dan is fiercely bright and thinks outside the box to secure positive outcomes for his clients. He is also very personable and has a good manner with clients.

David is a very good, quite relaxed senior junior who's easy to work with. He is great at working as part of a team and very precise on the law.

David knows the law inside out and sees the complexities of a case. He thinks deeply and is a good written and oral advocate.

David is so bright and is a barrister who has banked up a stash of legal knowledge to die for. He is the guy to bounce stuff off.

Hugh is really intellectual but not too precious about it. He gives overtly considered advice; nothing is just throwaway. He is just utterly reliable and great fun.

James is our first port of call for partnership disputes. He has real intellectual firepower and can be subtle or a street fighter as the situation requires.

James Mather is a very bright guy.

James Mather is very impressive and persuasive.

James Weale is at the top of his game as a junior lawyer. He's incredibly busy and produces phenomenal work product – I don't know how he finds enough hours in the day..

James is a great advocate who is good at cross-examination. He's incredibly hands on, and his written work is excellent as he gets stuck into the details.

James is clever, responsive and someone who comes up with practical solutions. He is streetwise; he knows what you can and can't do.

James is a fiercely intelligent and incredibly versatile advocate. His oral advocacy is particularly impressive, and his strategic vision is second to none.

Jonathan is so nice to work with, as he's very collaborative and so relaxed. He is also really good at the judgement calls and identifying the issues in a case.

Jonathan is one of the finest advocates at the Bar and a steady hand on the tiller.

Jonathan's advocacy is amongst the best at the Chancery Bar.

Absolutely super and someone with excellent judgement; he is ruthless at discarding the weaker points. Jonathan is a very disciplined and competent trial advocate.

Rupert is very smooth and very good at persuading judges. He is really smart and charming.

Rupert gets into the weeds of a case. He is brilliant and good on his feet with the judges.

David is immensely creative and clever.

David is definitely the person to go to for a monstrous case. He is unflappable and dignified in the courtroom.

David is just one of the cleverest guys on earth. He is methodical, well reasoned and someone with exceptional brain power and court presence.

David did one of the finest cross-examinations of an expert I've ever heard. He's very astute and forensically brilliant.

Gareth is good at absorbing information at pace. He is very organised and a strong senior junior who is able to contribute to any case and lead others.

Gareth Tilley is a really good barrister and really great with clients. He's responsive and easy to work with.

Giles has a great sense of judgement and doesn't overcomplicate things.

Giles is loved by his clients as he has a tremendous manner and is very reassuring. He gives the very best quality advice and is very hands-on.

Giles has real gravitas and the ability to calmly control the court. He adapts quickly and well to any changing circumstances.

Giles has an innately intuitive grasp of the issues at play and is able to approach matters from first principles. He really comes up with reasoned answers and original analysis.

His written submissions are clear and chronological, and guide the judge to the issues at hand. At trial, Justin is both a persuasive and powerful advocate.

Justin is a very creative advocate who is very responsive.

Justin had the ear of the judge, and the clients really liked him. He's charming, very good at cross-examining, but also a bit of a scrapper who really fights his corner.

Lance has the relatively rare combination of being a first-class brain and a high-quality advocate. He is very responsive and very aware of the bigger picture in complex matters.

If you have a serious problem, Lance is on the shortlist of people you can call to find a solution.

Lance works incredibly hard; he doesn't just delegate to his juniors, but is always all over the detail.

Paul is a very reflective and bright man who is really responsive. He's a good person to work with and very competent at presenting the case.

Simon is a very calm and tremendously experienced barrister who thinks really strategically and doesn't waste time. He's economical in his use of time, both in writing and on his feet.

Simon is very good in his written work; he's pragmatic and doesn't miss anything. He is sensible in court, so people listen to him.

Sophie is absolutely brilliant and really considered in everything she does. If you send a random query to her, you don't get a half-baked answer. She is all over the detail and good at what she does.

Sophie Holcombe produces very clear and comprehensive advice. She's a pleasure to work with.

A fine opponent who is even-handed and extremely fair-minded.

Emma is an incredibly fierce advocate who's calm and measured even under stressful conditions. She can adapt herself well when she runs into stormy weather on a case.

Emma is very, very bright and fast-working. She gets on top of huge amounts of information very quickly.

Emma is extremely hard-working, very responsive and always available. She's able to produce a massive amount of work in a short period of time, and nothing fazes her.

I consider Lara Kuehl to be an excellent advocate. Her written work is first class, and she is very responsive and extremely easy to work with.

Lara produces amazing performances in court because she is very well prepared and aware of the court and its reactions as the day progresses. She is able to adapt very quickly to changing situations.

Lara has always been very reliable and very, very good in court. Her written work is excellent, and she is very, very user-friendly.

Oliver Jones is hard-working, user-friendly and responsive.

Oliver Jones is a fantastic lawyer who's great to work with.

Ollie Jones is exceptional. He consistently delivers impressive results in even the most complex and challenging cases. As an advocate, he is clear, engaging and persuasive.

Stephanie is super bright and has a really clear drafting style. She is a responsive and really smart barrister.

Stephanie is unbelievably good. She's a massive workhorse who produces highly complex opinions to tight deadlines and knows how to pitch to clients at the right level.

Stephanie Thompson at Serle Court is brilliant. She performs so far above her call.

Timothy is very fun to work with, very engaging and someone who clients really like. He's a very clever advocate who's very good on the strategy of litigation.

Timothy was fantastic in his written submissions and in his advocacy in court. He was reliable, great to deal with and commercial in his approach.

Really good to work with, he is very tactically astute and open to discussion. He immerses himself in the case and knows documents back to front. In court, his advocacy is fantastic.

Matthew dealt with a complex, wide-ranging claim with absolute class. His understanding of the case and his out-of-the-box thinking really impressed us.

Matthew's written work, cross-examinations and client skills are all excellent.